Lisieux English Senior Secondary School

Lisieux English Senior Secondary School sits in the Nadel area of Vaikom, in Kottayam. It’s a place where the sounds of the town and the school day kind of mix together. We’ve got a fairly large building to house all the different grades, and as you can imagine, it gets pretty loud when the bells ring for the end of the day. The campus has some trees that give us a bit of shade, which is nice during the hotter months in Kerala. Our school isn’t trying to be something it’s not; it’s just a regular secondary school where we follow the syllabus and try to get the students through their exams. The classrooms have big windows to let in the light, and you can often hear the rain hitting the roof during the monsoon season. The teachers here have been around for a long time and they know the families in Vaikom quite well. We have the usual stuff like a playground and a small library, though the books are well-loved and have been read many times. It’s a busy life, keeping track of so many students and making sure everyone is where they should be. We don’t use any polished language to describe ourselves. We are just a school in Nadel, doing the same thing we’ve done for years, helping kids learn their lessons and grow up.